The Nancy M. and Douglas M. Yeager Family Foundation primarily supports programs delivering or supporting early childhood development.

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The Nancy M. and Douglas M. Yeager Family Foundation primarily supports programs delivering or supporting early childhood development.

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Amy Ferguson
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Ferguson
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I am part of a web of writers, editors, videographers, communicators, and ambassadors who help shine a light on how we can all contribute to a loving world. For me this comes through in three simple words: reveal, serve, and inspire. It means researching, listening, sleuthing, writing, connecting, and conspiring for good. 

Our teachers in this work are numerous. I have learned so much from others' fine "translations" of the need for love in our world--epidemiologists, neuroscientists, and public health specialists, artists, clergy, and various lifelong practitioners of compassion--who carry this work into realms of our social life like schools, prisons, and law enforcement circles.

My background is deep in the humanities, and my family tree is of full Catholics (faithful and lapsed), skeptics, and librarians. I have a master's degree in literature and am drawn to volunteer with arts-related organizations and projects. 


 

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“We are all born with 200 bad poems in us.”  —Billy Collins

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Submitted by aferguson on Tue, 12/04/2018 - 06:17

Ten one-week residencies provide the opportunity for selected preschool through fifth-grade teachers to spend a quiet week of reflection, writing, reading, and planning for the following school year. 

This teacher residency program is sponsored by the Nancy M. and Douglas M. Yeager Family Foundation in partnership with the GilChrist Retreat Center of the Fetzer Institute.

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